Comment 31 for bug 1570472

@Ivan, @Simon, @Dmitry, or anyone else affected:

I'm trying to understand exactly what is wrong/expected here (not overly familiar with puppet myself).

So Simon's test case was `puppet apply -e "service { 'tftpd-hpa': ensure => stopped }"`.

On 16.04 and 16.10, without 'upstart' installed (but puppet and tftpd-hpa), I get:

puppet apply -e "service { 'tftpd-hpa': ensure => stopped }"
Notice: Compiled catalog for nonfermentable-maribeth.lxd in environment production in 0.14 seconds
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Service[tftpd-hpa]/ensure: ensure changed 'running' to 'stopped'
Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.19 seconds

and `service tftpd-hpa status` indicates it is properly stopped.

If I install the 'upstart' package, things break, but that shouldn't be installed by default in 16.04 anymore?

What am I missing? What command reproduces the exact issue you are seeing Ivan?

FWIW, the 16.10 version of puppet has the versioned code already present (although not the bit for 16.10). But again, in 16.10 the same behavior is seen. So I think I need a clearer statement of the problem so I can verify the fix better.